Ariel

Ariel the name of a fairy in Shakespeare's The Tempest, who has been rescued from the enchantment of the witch Sycorax by Prospero and who must serve his new master until he is released; Ariel is the airy spirit who contrasts with the gross and animal Caliban.

The name was given to a satellite of Uranus discovered in 1851, the twelfth closest to the planet and the fourth largest (diameter 1,160 km), and subsequently to a series of six American and British satellites devoted to studies of the ionosphere and X-ray astronomy (1962–79).

Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

Ariel (in the Bible)

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.

Copyright The Columbia University Press

Ariel (ā´rēĕl), in the Bible, aide of Ezra. In two other passages AV calls them
"lionlike men"
(
"two ariels of Moab"
in RV). Nothing is known of them. Ariel is also used as a symbolic name of Jerusalem.

Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.